This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepal. This rare Buddhist scripture focuses on the ritual practice of thaumaturgic weather control for successful agriculture through overpowering mythical Nagas. Traditionally, these ser...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迪杰·法桑（Didier Fassin）生于1955年，是法国人类学家和社会学家，兼任法国高等社会科学院和美国普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学领域终身教授，已被任命为法兰西学院公共卫生主席。他曾在塞内加尔、厄瓜多尔、南非和法国进行实地研究。他最近的研究与“惩罚”和“生命”这两个主题有关，前者他在伯克利的坦纳人类价值讲座中有所论述；后者则是他在法兰克福学派大本营“阿多诺纪念讲座”的演讲主题，本书的三个主要章节便根源于此，浓缩并融汇了这位学者毕生工作的精华所在。 译者简介： 边和，1984年生，毕业于北京大学生命科学学院，获哈佛大学科学史博士学位。现任普林斯顿大学历史系与东亚系副教授。

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approach...(展开全部)

"Buddhist Manuscript Cultures" explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Collectively, the book offers cross-...(展开全部)

肯尼斯・弗兰姆普敦，1930年生，建筑师、建筑史家及评论家，曾作为一名建筑师在伦敦AA（建筑协会）建筑学院接受培训，现为美国哥伦比亚大学建筑规划研究生院威尔讲席教授。他曾任教于本学科内许多一流的院校，其中包括伦敦皇家艺术学院，苏黎世ETH学院，阿姆斯特丹伯拉杰学院（Berlage Institute），洛桑EPFL及维吉尼亚大学。他写有大量关于现当代建筑的论著，并从1986－1990年担任由密斯・凡・德・罗基金会赞助的位于巴塞罗那的EEC欧洲建筑奖评委会主席。

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contem...(展开全部)

Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides...(展开全部)

`Theory of the Modern Drama' is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. This concise but wide-ranging book discusses the work of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Satre, Brecht and Wilder, among others.

《On Drawing Trees and Nature》（《描绘树木与自然》）是英国19世纪风景画家J. D. Harding于1846年首次出版的绘画教材。本版本书末还附有同作者于1855年出版的《Lessons on Trees》（《树木绘画课》）中的23张整页插图。